Main wiki article on giraffes, third paragraph. Verified here: http://www.iucnredlist.org/search I' could be wrong, but I believe the rest that are endangered are considered 'threatened'.

I'm not entirely against the idea behind, I mean nature is nature and feeding it to the lions seems to make sense, but emotional and conservation arguments aside, it just seems like bad PR in general._________________...if a single leaf holds the eye, it will be as if the remaining leaves were not there.http://about.me/omardrake

The reticulated giraffe, the subspecies to which Marius belonged, is not endangered. I don't think the zoo would have culled him had he been of an endangered subspecies, though I don't know.

My only issue with it is that other zoos wanted him, had the space, and adequate facilities. So, the only relevant argument that I can see is that of genes: that an animal may be of such low quality genes as to not only warrant not breeding, but destruction. I don't doubt that the Copenhagen zoo has the right to make that decision for itself, but I'm curious why it (or any zoo) gets to be the sole arbiter of whether an animal is destroyed when other adequate homes are available._________________"Worse comes to worst, my people come first, but my tribe lives on every country on earth. I’ll do anything to protect them from hurt, the human race is what I serve." - Baba Brinkman

LOS ANGELES (CN) - Clueless Hawthorne police beat and Tasered a deaf man as he signaled to them that he was deaf and his friend had loaned him the snowboard he was carrying, the man claims in court.

In a federal complaint for violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Jonathan Meister claims the attack could have been avoided had Hawthorne trained its police officers to communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing.

Officers confronted him on Feb. 13 outside a friend's home as he picked up a snowboard and winter clothes for a trip to Utah, Meister says in the lawsuit.

Meister says he used hand gestures to try to tell police he is deaf and was lawfully at the home.

The cops were having none of it. They "shot Taser darts into Mr. Meister, administered a number of painful electric shocks, struck him with fists and feet, and forcibly took him to the ground," he says in the complaint.

Officers kicked and punched him in the back and stomach, choked and Tasered him, delivering "punishing shocks" and intentionally "burning his flesh," Meister claims.

He says four defendant officers took part in the attack: Jeffrey Salmon, Jeffrey Tysl, Erica Bristow and Mark Hultgren.

After he was knocked unconscious and taken to a hospital, he cited for assaulting the officers and released, but the charges were dropped.

what's probably more relevant is that they aren't dissected in front of children.

cows and frogs are, though

.....wow. the biggest we ever did was a fetal pig. you school must have had mad space - or was there just one cow for the whole class? because if everyone got their own cow....._________________aka: neverscared!

@ no one in particular: Also why does it matter if an animal is dissected for children? They learn about the animal, sounds pretty educative to me.

it is very educational, but also very real. and some people are not real big on letting their kids know about some of the realer aspects of life. like, not explaining to the kids that chickens don't just magically disassemble themselves and wrap themselves in plastic, like they are in the supermarket.

i dunno, that may be more an american thing._________________aka: neverscared!

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The very stupidity of the nature of the arrest is clearly strategic. Pussy Riot were arrested while they were minding their own business, and for no good reason. George Orwell noted in a letter about why he wrote 1984 that the point of the police state is not to demonstrate the state's control over people's bodies but their capacity to shape accepted reality. A police state needs to impose absurdity to show the depths of its power. Putin could easily have waited for Pussy Riot to stage a protest, to cause a disruption, and then arrested them on the basis of "hooliganism" as he did in 2012. Instead, he saw to it that they were arrested for the silliest of reasons, and made sure everybody knew how silly those reasons were.

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@ no one in particular: Also why does it matter if an animal is dissected for children? They learn about the animal, sounds pretty educative to me.

it is very educational, but also very real. and some people are not real big on letting their kids know about some of the realer aspects of life. like, not explaining to the kids that chickens don't just magically disassemble themselves and wrap themselves in plastic, like they are in the supermarket.

i dunno, that may be more an american thing.

Magical disassembling! I lolled.

Perhaps it is cultural, my tiny nieces and nephews had no problem watching a cow get decapitated._________________No one is every truly alone with pizza.

LOS ANGELES (CN) - Clueless Hawthorne police beat and Tasered a deaf man as he signaled to them that he was deaf and his friend had loaned him the snowboard he was carrying, the man claims in court.

In a federal complaint for violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Jonathan Meister claims the attack could have been avoided had Hawthorne trained its police officers to communicate with the deaf and hard of hearing.

Officers confronted him on Feb. 13 outside a friend's home as he picked up a snowboard and winter clothes for a trip to Utah, Meister says in the lawsuit.

Meister says he used hand gestures to try to tell police he is deaf and was lawfully at the home.

The cops were having none of it. They "shot Taser darts into Mr. Meister, administered a number of painful electric shocks, struck him with fists and feet, and forcibly took him to the ground," he says in the complaint.

Officers kicked and punched him in the back and stomach, choked and Tasered him, delivering "punishing shocks" and intentionally "burning his flesh," Meister claims.

He says four defendant officers took part in the attack: Jeffrey Salmon, Jeffrey Tysl, Erica Bristow and Mark Hultgren.

After he was knocked unconscious and taken to a hospital, he cited for assaulting the officers and released, but the charges were dropped.

Da fuck?? So he did some wavy gestures in their face (which I assume is what someone who doesn't know sign language would see) and this is somehow reason for them to beat him up?

Also this:

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Numerous, similar lawsuits have been filed across the country, in which police beat and arrested diabetics suffering from insulin shock, believing, or claiming to believe, that they were drunk.

Okay why the fuck is the standard reaction: Beat em up? Isn't that supposed to be a latter resort when the person starts becoming violent?_________________No one is every truly alone with pizza.

one does start to wonder about the mind-set of some of these cops. it's not clear from that article why they stopped the deaf guy in the first place - since he had his friend's permission, one presumes they didn't catch him climbing out a window or otherwise looking like he was burgling the place.